Some 200,000 mail carriers have reached a tentative contract deal with the U.S. Postal Service that includes backdated pay raises and a promise to provide workers with air-conditioned trucks.
The new agreement, which still needs to be ratified by union members, runs through November 2026. Letter carriers have been working without a new contract since their old one expired in May 2023. Since then they have continued working under the terms of the old contract.
Both the union and the Postal Service welcomed the agreement, which was announced Friday.
I don’t care if it’s ugly so long as it’s functional. I don’t want a situation where they spent millions on a new truck that the post office has to use because it’s built in 30 different congressional districts and the lobbyists are all shoving money down the throats of incumbents to keep it operational.